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Books by Waldo Frank Books by Waldo Frank STORY The Unwelcome Man (1917) The Dark Mother (1920) Rahab (1922) City Block (1922) Holiday (1923) Chalk Face (1924) The Death and Birth of David Markand (1935) Hie Bridegroom Cometh (1939) Summer Never Ends (1941) The Island in the Atlantic (in preparation) HISTORY Our America (1919) Virgin Spain (1926) revised (1942) The Re-Discovery of America (1929) America Hispana (1931) reissued as South of Us (1939) South American Journey (1943) CRITICISM The Art of the Vieux Colombier (1918) Salvos (1924) Time-Exposures (by Search-Light) (1926) Primer Mensaje a la America Hispana (1930) (pub. only in Spanish) Dawn in Russia (1932) In the American Jungle (1937) Chart for Rough Water (1940) Ustedes y Nosotros: Nuevo Mensaje a Ibero America (1942) (pub. only in Spanish) The Jew In Our Day (1944) THEATER New Years Eve (1929) The Jew In Our Day BY WALDO FRANK With an Introduction by REINHOLD NIEBUHR NEW YORK DUELL, SLOAN AND PEARCE COPYRIGHT, 1944, BY WALDO FRANK All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form. first edition A WARTIME BOOK THB COMPLETE EDITION IS PRODUCED ־S4 FVU« COMPLIANCE WITH THE COVERS MENT'S REGULATIONS FOB CONSERVING »APKJI ANPOTHER ESSENTIAL MATERIAL* PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CONTENTS Prefatory Note vii Introduction, by REINHOLD NIEBUHR 3 I: THE JEWS ARE DIFFERENT 17 II: TOWARD AN ANALYSIS OF THE PROBLEM OF THE JEW 41 III: WITH MARX, SPINOZA 61 IV: THAT ISRAEL MAY LIVE 81 V: ISRAEL IN SPAIN 99 VI: ISRAEL IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE 115 A. IN AMERICA HISPANA 115 B. IN THE UNITED STATES 129 VII: THE JEW IN OUR DAY 141 A. THE AMERICAN JEW 141 B. DEMOCRACY AND THE JEW 154 C. PREFACE TO A PROGRAM 167 POSTSCRIPT 189 $118 to three brothers JACQUES MARITAIN LEWIS MUMFOKD BEINHOLD NIEBUHR V PREFATORY NOTE AFTER Reinhold Niebuhr had written his introduction to this volume, he sent it to me with the doubt that it served the purpose well, and with the modest sugges- tion that it might be better as a postscript. It is true that the reader will get more from my friend's pages if he turns to them (or returns) after having read the book itself. But there are good reasons why Reinhold Niebuhr's words should stand at the threshold. They strike a note of humane concern for the lives of the generality of Jews, which I am glad to have heard at the book's beginning: a note which I did not perhaps sufficiently stress, because the urgency of Israel's cen- tral problem fixed my attention elsewhere. That it is Reinhold Niebuhr, rather than I, who strikes this note is a symbolic action whose deep and beautiful signifi- cance will, I hope, be clear to the reader of the volume. In my postscript, I have dealt in detail with Dr. Nie- buhr's criticisms, specifying agreements and dissents. The book, although it reveals the progress of its author's thought and experience as he was increasingly confronted through the years by the Jews' growing crisis, and although it therefore may be said to have some organic unity, consists of essays individually writ- ten and published: I in The Saturday Evening Post; vii viii Prefatory Note II and V in The Menorah Journal; III in The New Republic; IV in The Synagogue; VI B in the Centen- nial Volume of Congregation Mishkan Israel of New Haven; VI A and VII in The Contemporary Jewish Record. Most of them were republished in part or in full by other periodicals of the United States, Latin America, and Europe. The chapter "Israel in America Hispana" was orig- inally a lecture which I delivered from notes in Spanish before the Associacion Hebraica of Buenos Aires, and later before the Associacion Hebrdica of Santiago, Chile. From the stenographic transcript I made my adaptation into English. Only one of the chapters exists within the covers of a book: "With Marx, Spinoza," which I have borrowed from "In the American Jungle," a volume of my essays whose American edition is out of print. Special acknowledgments are due to my friend, Adolph S. Oko, at whose suggestion several of the essays were written; and without whose insistence they might not have been written at all. W. F. Truro, Massachusetts INTRODUCTION By Reinhold Niebuhr INTRODUCTION THIS introduction to Waldo Frank's book on The Jew in Our Day does not have the purpose of commend- ing his thoughts upon this subject to the reader. That would be presumptuous. Its purpose is rather to seek to illumine the issue under discussion by developing points of common conviction and of different em- phases which we have explored together in years of intimate friendship with one another. Our common convictions are proof of the possibility of converging upon the truth from varying perspec- tives, about which he speaks so eloquently in the final chapter of this volume. I find this volume a profound and moving statement and elaboration of the prophetic genius of Judaism. Jewish spirituality combines heaven and earth, as it were. It does not separate soul from body or mind from nature but understands man and history in the unity of man's physical and spiritual life. In this it distinguishes itself from Greek modes of thought; and lies at the foundation of the world- affirming side of Christianity and of ethical seriousness in our Western culture. I know of no one who under- stands this genius of Jewish religion better than Mr. Frank. He expresses it beyond the restraints of tradi- 3 4 The Jew in Our Day tional Jewish legalism and in a deeper dimension than those secular idealists among the Jews who have dis- sipated the religious inheritance of Judaism while maintaining the prophetic passion for justice. It is on this point where our minds and souls have met. I have, as a Christian theologian, sought to strengthen the Hebraic-prophetic content of the Christian tradition; and he has sought to recover the full vigor of the pro- phetic tradition for Jewish culture. I differ with him on points in which he seems to me to sacrifice one side of prophetic teaching: its sense of the relation of man to nature and necessity, for the other side: its sense of man's relation to the eternal, the universal, that is, to God. Mr. Frank would solve the Jewish problem by re- calling the Jewish people to their prophetic heritage. If they are to suffer, he would have them "suffer for a cause," believing that to "suffer for nothing" is pathetic rather than creative and tragic. He meditates upon the injustices from which Jews suffer and concludes that "the pity is that there is so little reason for this dis- crimination." This means that he would like to lift the suffering of his people to the level of redemptive mar- tyrdom, whereas most Jews actually suffer neither be- cause they are much better than we are (as Mr. Frank would like) or worse than we (as their detractors claim); but merely because they are a nation scattered among the nations and thereby commit the offense of being "different," an offense which fans the semi-con- Introduction 5 scious pride of all ethnic and cultural groups into flame. Mr. Frank's view of Jewish destiny is that they should actualize the position of the "suffering servant" as pic- tured in Isaiah 53. The manner in which he makes this prophetic conception relevant to the modern situ- ation is a very nice proof of his profound engagement with the prophetic genius of his people. On the reli- gious and moral side the Jews distinguish themselves from other nations in being a nation which has sought desperately to be "the church," to be the protagonist, not of its own cause, but of the universal and divine cause. On the ethnic-political side they are distin- guished by the fact of the Diaspora. They are a na- tion scattered among the nations. Mr. Frank would accept whatever disabilities and difficulties arise for his people from the second fact, if only he could en- noble this martyrdom by making it more purely prophetic. As I see it, this solution states rather than solves the religious problem of the Jews; and underestimates their purely mundane problem of existing as a people. In that sense it violates that part of the prophetic tradi- tion which understands the earthy basis of our exist- ence. Mr. Frank believes that "to be a Jew merely because I was born one is shameful." This can be said only from the standpoint of a nation which is church rather than nation. But such a church leaves its mem- ber in an ambiguous position. It is asking him to make a free choice of a spiritual task and responsibility. This is a religious vision transcending the limits of nature- 6 The Jew in Our Day history, among which are the facts of ethnic distinc- tions. It is no more shameful to be born a Jew than to be born an American or a Frenchman or a German. Having been born a Jew or an American it is, if not shameful, at least less than fully human to serve only this particular nation or people to the exclusion of the whole human community. Exclusive nationalism is shameful; but there is a difference between exclusive nationalism and the mere fact of national distinction. Exclusive nationalism is a spiritual corruption which arises out of the natural and innocent fact of national distinction; just as the vision of the universal, which transcends race and nation, is a spiritual achievement arising upon the basis of ethnic particularity.
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